A general volume of epitaphs, original and selected, and an historical and moral essay on the subject, by a clergyman [B. Richings]. |
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Page ix
... dark files moved slowly and softly along to the village Church , the silence of the scene was , as is customary with the Welsh , broken by the so- lemn and subdued voices of the multitude , who sang appropriate hymns . When the vast con ...
... dark files moved slowly and softly along to the village Church , the silence of the scene was , as is customary with the Welsh , broken by the so- lemn and subdued voices of the multitude , who sang appropriate hymns . When the vast con ...
Page xii
... dark and gloomy appearance , it has been considered , also , an emblem of mourn- ing , from the earliest ages of antiquity . The Greeks adopted the idea from the Egyptians , the Romans from the Greeks , and the Britons from the Romans ...
... dark and gloomy appearance , it has been considered , also , an emblem of mourn- ing , from the earliest ages of antiquity . The Greeks adopted the idea from the Egyptians , the Romans from the Greeks , and the Britons from the Romans ...
Page xvii
... dark ages of Popery , many of its deluded votaries attached the greatest importance to being buried in places famed for peculiar sanctity . It has been before remarked , that it was not customary among the Jews to bury in coffins . It ...
... dark ages of Popery , many of its deluded votaries attached the greatest importance to being buried in places famed for peculiar sanctity . It has been before remarked , that it was not customary among the Jews to bury in coffins . It ...
Page xliv
... dark and deep entrance only is visible , and it is rarely entered , even by the steps of the faith- ful . For more than a century , not more than two or three Europeans are known , either by daring or bribery , to have visited it ; the ...
... dark and deep entrance only is visible , and it is rarely entered , even by the steps of the faith- ful . For more than a century , not more than two or three Europeans are known , either by daring or bribery , to have visited it ; the ...
Page xlix
... dark ground , and that the tombs of the men are known by tur- bans , which , like coronets with us , denote the rank of the deceased , whilst those of the wo- men are plain . " D Whether the sepulchres of the Jewish Kings bore any ...
... dark ground , and that the tombs of the men are known by tur- bans , which , like coronets with us , denote the rank of the deceased , whilst those of the wo- men are plain . " D Whether the sepulchres of the Jewish Kings bore any ...
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Abner blessed blest bliss breath burial buried called Canaan cave of Machpelah cheer child chre Christ Christian Church Church of England churchyard city of David coffins dark dead death died divine dust early doom earth earthly Egypt Ephrath epitaphs eternal fade faith fathers fear feelings flower friends funeral glory goeth grace grief hath hear heart heaven heavenly Hebron holy hope hour inscriptions Israel Jesus Jews John xix King laid lament life's live look Lord memory mercy mighty to save mortal mourn never Patriarch peace pious praise pray prayer Psalm purgatory realms reign Rephidim rest saints Saviour Saviour's love seek sepulchres shalt sigh sinner skies sleep slumbers soon sorrow spirit stay stone sweet tears TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE thee thine things thou art thought tomb tree trod truth unto voice weep whilst wisdom wise youth
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Page 81 - As the winged arrow flies Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream: Upward, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream.
Page xiv - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page xxviii - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 151 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page viii - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page liv - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 19 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 147 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 157 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth-; they that have done good to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation,"
Page xxxv - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.